smelly buck season

22.3.2011
BUILDING NEWS

The pace of life swung back towards average today. In fact everything stayed in a middle range. The weather was neither hot nor cold. The sun was hidden by clouds but it did not rain and everyone worked steadily. David H came up and painted oil on the window frames that were delivered yesterday and Edd even had time to fix the pipes that take the rainwater from the gutters on the dairy to the big tank.

At the house site Geoff and a helper continues to build the internal wall that backs the kitchen and eventually got it up to full height. They worked with out needing anything today but I did go and pick up the waste sacks and stuff when a storm threatened. It was awful clearing up the other week once everything got wet and covered with mud.

OTHER NEWS

The young goats have begun coming into season. I have a couple of them locked in the yard bellowing their disapproval of my chaperoning. The bucks have been making themselves suitably smelly for two weeks now and are not going to be at all fussy if the only female that fights through the fence is their own daughter! We really need to put up a better fence or move the bucks but this takes time and we have not seen much of that recently.

I am still getting quite a bit of milk from the adult goats and once again today I made fetta. I made haloumi yesterday but it went wrong. I had to go out in the evening to the dentist with Wayne so I rushed one of the stages and copped the consequences. Oh well, can’t win them all.

I try and put two wheelbarrow loads of something in the new raised garden bed everyday but it is still not full. I am hoping Edd will have time to get skiddy out and fill up the ute back for me so that this process speeds up. I have started to take cuttings from the plants in the lower vegetable garden so that I can preserve my stock when I put chooks in there. I plan to have them moved at the start of April so I will have to get a move on with that too.